The Department's faculty members frequently receive major awards and honours. The following is a sample of recent awards received:
- Dr. Guy Lachapelle: Forum mondial des sciences sociales 2013
- Dr. Patrik Marier: The Politics of Social Gerontology
- Dr. Mireille Paquet: La fédéralisation de la gouvernance des politiques liées à l'immigration au Canada, en Australie et aux États-Unis
- Dr. Stephanie Paterson: The “State” of Motherhood in Canada: The Politics of Leisure in the Transition to Motherhood
- Dr. Tina Hilgers, individual SSHRC Insight Grant, "Rights, Benefits, and Identity: Clientelistic and Democratic Representation in Latin America" ($116,273)
- Dr. Mireille Paquet has been awarded a Seed (Individual) Program grant funding her project Policy Analysts and Immigration Policymaking.
- Dr. Tina Hilgers, Laura Macdonald (Carleton University), and Julian Durazo Herrmann (UQAM), held a SSHRC funded workshop on violence in Latin America and the Caribbean at Carleton University in December, 2013. The workshop report, authored by Concordia Ph.D. candidate Lara Khattab, can be found here: Clientelism and Violence in Subnational Latin American and Caribbean Politics.
- Dr. Guy Lachapelle is part of a research team, led by Alain Gagnon, that has just secured a major FQRSC grant toward establishing a Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire sur la diversite et la democratie
- Drs. Daniel Salee, Antoine Bilodeau, Mireille Paquet along with Dr. Chedly Belkhodja (Principal SCPA) have just been awarded one of the five OVPRGS Team Seed Grants in the amount of $ 20,000 for developing the Centre for Immigration Policy Evaluation focused on the evaluation of immigration and immigrant integration policies in Canada and Quebec.
- Dr. Peter Stoett - Fulbright Canada-RBC Eco-Leadership Program Grant, which will lead to the development of urban agriculture through the City Farm School Project on both campuses.
- Dr. Daniel Salee - International Council for Canadian Studies 2012 Jean Michel Lacroix Prize for the best article published in the International Journal for Canadian Studies in 2010-2011. Paper title: "Representing Aboriginal Self-Government and First Nations/State Relations: Political Agency and the Management of the Boreal Forest in Eeyou Istchee" (with Carole Lévesque).
- Dr. Marlene Sokolon - Best Paper Award for the Politics, Literature, and Film section of the American Political Science Association. Paper title:"Euripides' Medea: The Monstrous Justice of the Scorned".